March 2015 – STM which has been making quality computer accessories and bags for many years, has introduced a new electronics backpack. The new backpack, called the Drifter, is designed for the new generation of thin light laptops that are in the 2-4lbs range. And the owner does not want a backpack that is heavier…
March 2015 – At GTC 2015, the opening keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang, talked about Deep Neural Networks as a task that is a best fit for GPU compute capabilities. Following this introduction as a next generation application, Jeff Dean gave a keynote on Large Scale Deep Learning. These learning systems are well suited to GPU…
March 2015 – At the Nvidia GTC 2015 event, the power of the current generation GPU compute platforms and the amount of data that can be processed is causing a shift in collaborative workflows. Traditionally, each member of a design and development team had their own standalone workstation with local memory; storage and CPU/GPU compute…
March 2015 – At an event held concurrently with the opening of the Nvidia GTC conference, the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HAS) Foundation, released their Version 1.0 Specification. The spec has three major components and is targeted to address the design and programming of mixed CPU and specialty processors (GPU, DSP, etc) systems. These computing systems…
March 2015 – At the Wearables Techcon in Santa Clara they held tracks and sessions on the realities of the wearables business. These include presentations from the UL on consumer regulations for wearables, and sessions on the guidelines for medical/fitness & health wearables that identify when the FDA needs to be involved. Other sessions addressed…
March 2015 – At the Santa Clara Wearables Techcon, the event addressed both hardware and software designers for the latest wearables products. These include platform devices such as the Apple Watch & Samsung Gear smart watches and customer purpose wearables. These custom purpose wearables are mostly targeted towards fitness applications at this time, but the…
March 2015 – At the 2015 GDC there was a standing room only session on the new HEVGA – Higher Education Video Game Alliance (higheredgames.org). The organization presented their ideas on integration of video game technology into the learning systems for colleges and Universities as well as structured coursework for degrees in Gaming to the…
March 2015 – In a new location in San Francisco atop the Metreon Center, the Game Connection conference held their US event. Well attended by over 15 exhibiting countries, the representatives covered the ecosystem from libraries and modules, to game development services, to game developers look for foreign publishers, to publishers to the economic development…
March 2015 – In an event the first night of GDC, ARM was showing off the release and integration of the Enlighten3 engine from Geomerics into the Unity and Unreal Engines for game development. Geomerics was acquired by ARM in 2013 and has been undergoing an “inside the tool” optimization for power and GPU/CPU use…
March 2015 – In the weekend event that was the first annual HardwareCon3, the main session was equally attended at the topic specific breakout sessions. Arranged from introduction to advanced on topics and depth, the 3-4 concurrent breakout sessions were both diverse and well attended. Some of the breakout highlights and topics follow: One of…